Leo

As a baby in Finland, my power ranger toys became legacy as I watched my older siblings play GTA I.

I enjoyed seeing the police faces stack up and tanks arrive just in-time.

My uncle would trick me into thinking I was playing Mortal Kombat I with him; that key I was spamming, he made sure was unbound :(

Later moving to the UK, my dad got me The Ultimate DOOM for my 5th birthday.

Completing on Nightmare stopped me peeing my pants at night.

I would mess around deleting a file and breaking the game several times, then present him with the floppy disks with CMD open to re-install.

Having finished the Warcraft: Orcs and Humans shareware several times, it was unavailable for my next birthday, so I chose Total Annihilation, which did not disappoint. 4 disks - madness back then!

My bro and I would take turns on Civilization II: Test of Time on the family PC. Was so happy later being handed down old office PC. The LANing began! Battlefield II with bots. For Starcraft I, I cracked the disc detection while he came up with a legit Brood War key in couple minutes: 9999-99999-99999999-99999-99999999-99999-9991.

Everything changed after finding gamemaker.nl from google. Anyone can make games eh... loving Raptor: Call of the Shadows, I did the plane scrolling shooter tutorial. And liking the MS-DOS Mario, I googled some free sprites and got animating. Of course, my first bug would be Mario running in mid-air! I wondered why I couldn't do actions with multiple keys via the UI...oh, there's a built-in language for 'experienced' users eh?

Later asking my uncle about this, he suggested Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional. Ploughed thru the first 100 pages, started reading The New Turing Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science for uni prep, dabbled in Colemak...got my first i7 920 and paused it all for Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Moving back from 2045 to 2011, I began my BSc Hons Computer Science. I offers from UCL/Warwick/Bristol, but my Biology was 1 mark off (rip), so Nottingham it was. For my final year dissertation, I built LearnHub.co from an empty notepad.exe.

After graduation and an assessment centre, I began as a Technical Consultant on £27k, one of 3 chosen, out of 20 people. 6 months later, I left my 3 hours daily commutes to co-found my first startup, where my deep coding journey began, coding again from scratch and purposefully re-inventing the wheel for a better future appreciation later on best practices.

I built R&D Square (rndsquare.com), a series of MVP's. We beat 700 other startups to Seedcamp's Top 20. Since, I've opened it up as a free tool to help the world.

I then joined as Head of Tech at Eatrics (eatrics.com). We got a $250,000 offer from IndieBio, then got ready to move to San Francisco. Later, the deal got cancelled due to the cofounders and I never got paid.

At similar time I co-founded Kasino Kierrokset (kasinokierrokset.com), profitable from day 1, a Finnish WordPress casino affiliate site with unique deals.

As a baby in Finland, my power ranger toys became legacy as I watched my older siblings play GTA I.

I enjoyed seeing the police faces stack up and tanks arrive just in-time.

My uncle would trick me into thinking I was playing Mortal Kombat I with him; that key I was spamming, he made sure was unbound :(

Later moving to the UK, my dad got me The Ultimate DOOM for my 5th birthday.

Completing on Nightmare stopped me peeing my pants at night.

I would mess around deleting a file and breaking the game several times, then present him with the floppy disks with CMD open to re-install.

Having finished the Warcraft: Orcs and Humans shareware several times, it was unavailable for my next birthday, so I chose Total Annihilation, which did not disappoint. 4 disks - madness back then!

My bro and I would take turns on Civilization II: Test of Time on the family PC. Was so happy later being handed down old office PC. The LANing began! Battlefield II with bots. For Starcraft I, I cracked the disc detection while he came up with a legit Brood War key in couple minutes: 9999-99999-99999999-99999-99999999-99999-9991.

Everything changed after finding gamemaker.nl from google. Anyone can make games eh... loving Raptor: Call of the Shadows, I did the plane scrolling shooter tutorial. And liking the MS-DOS Mario, I googled some free sprites and got animating. Of course, my first bug would be Mario running in mid-air! I wondered why I couldn't do actions with multiple keys via the UI...oh, there's a built-in language for 'experienced' users eh?

Later asking my uncle about this, he suggested Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional. Ploughed thru the first 100 pages, started reading The New Turing Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science for uni prep, dabbled in Colemak...got my first i7 920 and paused it all for Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Moving back from 2045 to 2011, I began my BSc Hons Computer Science. I offers from UCL/Warwick/Bristol, but my Biology was 1 mark off (rip), so Nottingham it was. For my final year dissertation, I built LearnHub.co from an empty notepad.exe.

After graduation and an assessment centre, I began as a Technical Consultant on £27k, one of 3 chosen, out of 20 people. 6 months later, I left my 3 hours daily commutes to co-found my first startup, where my deep coding journey began, coding again from scratch and purposefully re-inventing the wheel for a better future appreciation later on best practices.

I built R&D Square (rndsquare.com), a series of MVP's. We beat 700 other startups to Seedcamp's Top 20. Since, I've opened it up as a free tool to help the world.

I then joined as Head of Tech at Eatrics (eatrics.com). We got a $250,000 offer from IndieBio, then got ready to move to San Francisco. Later, the deal got cancelled due to the cofounders and I never got paid.

At similar time I co-founded Kasino Kierrokset (kasinokierrokset.com), profitable from day 1, a Finnish WordPress casino affiliate site with unique deals.